Gala explained in his article about what he calls the "human fleas" that "lessons such as the earthquake and the tsunami in Japan should teach them other kinds of behaviour: unity in the face of helplessness, generosity, (...). But they don't learn." And then he writes about Israel in this manner: "So we see Israel there, the most racist country, going back to Gaza after the fright."

This is not the first time he targets Israel or even the Jews. In an article published on February 5, 2009 by El Mundo, he explained that "the Jewish people will succumb again. Like it happened many times: pogroms, voluntary or unvoluntary ghettos, extermination, persecutions, expulsions,... From Egypt to Sepharad, from Canaan to Zion: all of them promised lands. Shouldn't they ask themselves why does always happen the same to them? Or is the rest of the world wrong?"

Spanish journalist David Gistau answered Gala through an article published on February 8, 2009 by El Mundo. He wrote that Gala's "reasoning makes Hitler an executor arm of a hate morally justified by a majority", as well as "we should ask Gala whether he would apply the same logic to (...) understand other persecutions (...). For example, those which were suffered by homosexuals."

Did Gala react to Gistau's argument by apologizing to the Jews? No, he didn't. On March 5, 2009, another article written by Gala was published by El Mundo. The Spanish writer explained about the Jews that: "Always the same: or persecuted or persecutors. Or both things at the same time."

I'll not insult anybody's intelligence by explicitly answering the question which serves as the title of this article since I think you can do it by yourselves easily.

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This blog is being written by just one person, and it's focused on the Spanish attitudes concerning Israel and the Jewish people.

I was born in Galicia, in northwestern Spain, and I'm not very skilled in English language, something appliable to the vast majority of the people here in Spain; I'd prefer not to talk about our lack of ability to speak English with other people, especially Anglophones.

All of this could easily lead to spelling mistakes, words which are not written in the correct order within a phrase, and so on. If somebody wants to make suggestions regarding this kind of mistakes, when found within this blog, please contact me (midtskogen.israel@gmail.com). In order to try to avoid these mistakes, I'll use this website while writing.

As a Spaniard and Galician, my languages are both Spanish (the official language of the Kingdom of Spain) and Galician (the co-official language of the Autonomous Community of Galicia). I'll provide translations from both of these languages into English, always as accurate as possible and between quotation marks (").